Darkness Falls on the Land of Light: Experiencing Religious Awakenings in Eighteenth-Century New England (Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early ... and the University of North Carolina Press)

by Douglas L. Winiarski

New converts who believed that their actions were “guided by immediate direction from heaven,” Edwards ominously observed in Some Thoughts concerning the Present Revival of Religion in New-England, would inevitably become “incorrigible and impregnable” in their speech and actions.